George waide reynolds



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l IMPROVEMENT IN SKIRT-WIRE.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: i

Be it known that I, GEORGE WAIDE REYNOLDS, of Smethick, inhthe county of Stafford, of England, have invehted an Improved Manufacture of Bands or Strips for Crinolines and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

In preparing strips i steel for conversion into crinolines, it has been usual to cover them with cotton plaiting, the cotton threads being laid around the strips sufficiently close to hide the steel. It has also been proposed as a cheaper operation to cover the steel with paper. This latter plan,lhowever, has this disadvantage, viz, that crinolinesrmade from such paper-covered steel bands will, whenwormfproduce a rustling sound.

` Those bands also present some disadvantage inu the coupling oi' their ends, and when the steel breaks the broken ends are at once free and dangerous, which is not the case with steel strips havinga plaited covering.

In order, however, to secure to some extent the economical advantage ofthe paper-covered st-rips 0r bands, I propose to employ a compound covering, which will combine, to some extent, tbeadvantage uf both plans,

-and have the `same sightly appearance, wit-bout being so costly as the close cotton -plaiting Torthis end iirst cover the strips of crinoline steel with white or other suitably toned paper, in any well-known or appro-ved manner. Over the steel strips, so covered with paper, I apply :in open-pluitcd covering, using for that purpose the ordinary plaiting or braiding machinery, availing myself of the color of the paper forploducing the effect. of a thick cotton covering, whilethe paper serves eii'ectually to prevent the edges of' the strips from cutting the cotton plaiting. In the accompanying drawing I have shownfon an enlarged scale- Eigure I, n strip of steel coated with paper, the edges being lapped, to insure a complete covering of the metal; and at Figure 2 I have shown the paper-covered strip, with the open-plait-ed covering applied thereto.

By this combined means of covering metal strips I am enabled, with a small expenditure of cotton, to obtain as good a result as if .the steel bands were thickly plaited with cotton, and also to. produce the -plaiting with great expedition. l l Y I claim skirt-wire, first covered with an envelope of paper or similar material, applied us described, and `then an open-braided 'covering or jacket, substantially as set forth,

Doneat London this 27th day of August, 1867.

GEORGE' WAIDE REYNOLDS.

Witnesses: 4 EDWARDv THoMAs HUGHES, 123 Chancery Lane, London.

HENRY Q. ROGERS, 123 Chancery Lane, London. 

